Sr Kathryn’s Podcast - Touching the Sunrise

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Meditations and conversations from my heart, offering a gentle space to meet God’s tender kindness as it moves through your wounded and weary places.

  1. FEB 14

    Finding a place of safety and trust in prayer - Psalm 139

    Lord, you have searched me thoroughly. You know me.... This can be a scary thought. We want to be known, and seen, and loved, and respected. Not searched. Later in the Psalm we learn how wonderful and loving is the one who knit us in our mother's womb. His "searching" eyes are there to see our slightest need for him. How wonderful he is in his care for us in all things.... This is a quiet meditation to bring to our inner space a sense of safety and trust.   Music by Petrushkasound from Pixabay

    29 min

  2. FEB 10

    A quiet meditation when you're feeling vulnerable and alone

    Jesus, looking at him, loved him (Mk). Of course these are the words in the Gospel that describe how Jesus received the rich young man. This quiet and reflective reading will lead you to touch gently both your vulnerability and the way the Lord loves you unconditionally, incredibility, and forever.

    26 min

  3. JAN 27

    Psalm 63: A quiet prayer in the wilderness

    O God, you are my God... For you I long... For you my soul thirsts... This psalm I prayed at my mother's side shortly before she passed into eternity. It is a psalm for any of us who are walking through a wilderness, where all is stripped away and we may feel lost and wondering and wandering...  Where God finds us.... Faithful. Love.  Take a breath. Rest. And join me in quiet prayer.   I hope you keep in touch. Visit http://www.touchingthesunrise.com Music by Petrushkasound from Pixabay

    26 min

  4. 05/08/2025

    Meditation with the Good Shepherd: Finding rest and inner peace

    What is important here is that we approach our thought world with compassion, curiosity, and creativity, a bit of humor, and a lot of prayer. It is like a cluster of screaming children clustered around our heart where God is dwelling. Think about a playground with kids out of control. It’s hard to get to the center, to the ground, to the inner room where God is dwelling when we are deflected by so many interests, fears, desires, and demands. In this meditation we experience the rest of our inner world that only Jesus and his compassion can bring us.

    22 min

  5. 04/04/2025

    Jesus wants to wash your feet: guided meditation

    What keeps you up at night? What is in your heart that you wish you could share with someone who cares? In this Holy Thursday meditation, Jesus gathers you tightly into his embrace as he looks in to your eyes and says: "When will you give all this to me?"

    20 min

  6. 03/05/2025

    Hope for uneasy times

    A conversation between Sr Emily Beata Marsh and Sr Kathryn James exploring the questions we ask in times that are uncertain, when we face struggles and challenges in our life, and when we wonder why those we love suffer.

    20 min

  7. 11/24/2024

    Become the Child God Made You: God Made Us for Himself

    Welcome to the last in the series: Being the Child God Made You where we're exploring how to be the child that Jesus asks us to be. Today we'll be talking about God made us to be satisfied only in God. Excerpts: God has made us for himself. He is providing for us, nourishing us, protecting us, warming us, delighting us... As long as we keep our hearts open, begging for him and his life, we will receive all he is giving us. What gets in the way of this inbuilt hunger for God? For each of us there would be a different list. One of the habits in the following list might be on yours: hours of scrolling through social media feeds, trying to do what only God can do, trying to change people around you instead of changing yourself, numbing habits, grasping for empty fillers like higher salaries, success, possessions, status... When we are satisfied with what can never satisfy us.... One thing we can do to increase our hunger for God is to avoid these ultimately unsatisfactory fillers and meditate instead on these famous words of St. Augustine who said: “You have made us for yourself, O Lord, and our heart is restless until it rests in you. To connect to more resources for spiritual formation: www.touchingthesunrise.com

    9 min

  8. 11/10/2024

    Being the Child God Made You: God Calls Us into Existence to Exist Before Him

    Welcome to the sixth in the series: Being the Child God Made You where we're exploring how to be the child that Jesus asks us to be. Today we'll be talking about how to accept our own neediness and also how to receive God's love, especially when we find it difficult. Excerpts: Recently on retreat I found myself asking Jesus: “Will you leave me, drop me, because I am not interesting enough?” Isn’t that the fear we all have. That somehow God won’t be so captivated with love for us that he’ll decide we are not worth being with for the long haul? These were Jesus’ words I felt that he said in my heart: “It is I who have planted my tent on your land, It is I who have desired to possess your soul... It is I who have chosen you. My choice is irrevocable. I choose to love your story—all of it. It is not a journey from bad to good. It is a life from seed to blossom. You have survived the blights and bugs, the storms, the bending and breaking, MY mending and molding. And now in MY garden, you are blossoming. It is ALL good.” To connect to more resources for spiritual formation: www.touchingthesunrise.com

    8 min
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